Dems should have expected it would come to this

This current stage of metastasis is now eat-their-own-ism on steroids. Omar is so brazen she doesn't care a whit if the legions of Dems who still comprise the Most Equal Comrade's cult following feel like they've had their teeth slapped right out of their mouths.

Behold the New Purity:

Rookie Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar, fresh off igniting an intra-party uproar with comments widely viewed as anti-Semitic, took a swipe at former President Barack Obama, saying in an explosive interview the 44th president's message of "hope and change" was a "mirage" and blasting his administration's drone and border detention policies.

Omar, D-Minn., took aim at the president's famed slogan, while further criticizing the Democratic Party for “perpetuating the status quo,” in the interview with Politico.

“Recalling the ‘caging of kids’ at the U.S.-Mexico border and the ‘droning of countries around the world’ on Obama’s watch," Omar charged that Obama "operated within the same fundamentally broken framework as his Republican successor,” the piece reads.

Omar is then quoted as saying: “We can’t be only upset with Trump… His policies are bad, but many of the people who came before him also had really bad policies. They just were more polished than he was.

“And that’s not what we should be looking for anymore. We don’t want anybody to get away with murder because they are polished. We want to recognize the actual policies that are behind the pretty face and the smile.”

But what was anybody to expect once the party cast its lot with Michael Harrington, Saul Alinsky and Cloward and Piven and left no room for the likes of Scoop Jackson, Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Zell Miller?

This has been coming for decades.

Now, this is going to go one of two ways. Either the threesome of Omar, Tlaib and AOC take Dems down so fast and so badly in polls that they have to pull the trigger and get ugly, or the threesome and likeminded minions take over the party so fast and so ruthlessly that the old guard (up to and including Obama, who was as radical a Dem as one could find until five minutes ago) is cast aside.

In that case, the divide in post-America takes on a whole new character. The resilient "quiet America" of which Victor Davis Hanson wrote a couple of days ago will once and for all no longer be able to absorb the blows from the countercultural impulse as it has been doing for fifty-plus tumultuous years. Everyone in the local coffee shop, in the workplace, and, unfortunately, the church will have to pick a side of the line the likes of Omar has drawn.

Will it come to that? It depends on whether there is any reservoir of decency and understanding of the American birthright left among us.

That's not certain. We'll just have to see.